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Steve Rogers <thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Preamble for those who haven't noticed this one before: Find File
> disallows the dragging of multiple files to the Trash but allows
> multiple files to be dragged to an alias of the Trash.
> 
> It's a fairly well-known quirk, but *why* (or "how"?) does it do it?

Spring loaded folders work on an alias, too, but not the wastebasket.

It must regognise the wastebasket as special for some reason, but treat
the alias a folder.

I'd report it as a bug, 'cos the FF sortcuts says:
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"You can drag found items from the upper list to *any* Finder location.
To copy a found item instead of moving it, press the Option key as you
drag. To make an alias of the item, press the Command key as you drag."
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I remember getting Sys 7.1 *very* confused by cross-mounting two
machines, and making an alias of the wastbasket from the desktop folder
of one, and trashing it, when I dropped stuff onto that alias (of it's
own wastbasket) from the other mac[0]; I managed to get "The item
'wastebasket' cannot be used because it is in the wastebasket. To use
the item 'wastebasket', drag it out of the wastebasket". [1]

BTW: A couple of known bugs have been fixed in the Sys 8 Find
File/Finder, including the one I reported of dragging 'special' files
(fonts, extensions, etc) from the Find File window to the System Folder
- 7.5.x didn't put them in the proper subfolder.

rgds, Alan
[0] Or something like that...
[1] ISTR it was a Friday afternoon and we were playing "What's the
stupidest dialog you can get on your Mac?" :-)
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